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From: "Billie C. & Anita J. Reynolds" <>
Subject: From Dolores' Scrapbook
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:34:45 -0700


KOBER ENDS 38 YEARS IN SV BUSINESS;
SELLS STORE TO NEW PARTNERSHIP
Walter and Dorothy Kober have sold Kober's Kash Store on the corner of
Main and Townsend Street. The buyers are Ron and Lee Seibel and Allan
and Patricia Leydecker who will take over operations of the store this
week. The new owners are changing the name to the Cedarville Grocery.
Both young couples have made Cedarville their home for the past three
years.

Walter Kober is retiring after forty years in the grocery store
business. His first two years of operation was in a small store on
Townsend Street known as the Highway grocery and later owned and
operated for several years by Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Donnelly. He then
purchased the old Surprise Valley Bank Building on the corner of Main
and Townsend streets and has been in business serving his customers at
this location for 38 years.

Kober's plans for the future? He plans to catch up on seeing the points
of interest around this area that southern Californians drive hundreds
of miles to see here. The Kobers have two daughters and their families
who will be visited more often, and who knows what the future will hold.

Many, many people will miss you, Kober, from behind the counter, and we
all wish you the very best in the years ahead.
(Picture)
WALKER KOBER
(1972)

GAIL HICKS IS POSTMASTER
(Picture)
GAIL HICKS has been appointed Officer in Charge in the Cedarville
Post-Office and took over his new duties April 29. He has been working
part-time in the office for several months under the retiring
Post-Master Heath Stanley. Gail returned last year after thirty-five
years of service with Bank of America. But retirement doesn't suit
Gail, so he is back at work again.

CLASS OF '32 REUNION
1932 CLASS REUNION HELD
Sixteen members of the graduating class of 1932 of the Surprise Valley
Union High School enjoyed reminiscing and exchanging news of present day
activities at a dinner at Goldens Saturday evening with several of their
teachers. After the dinner an open-house for their upper-classmen was
held at the First Restaurant where more visiting and dancing was enjoyed
to the music of Earl Stull, Hi Hironymous and Ruth Bridgeman. Teachers
present were Mrs. Hallie Tierney of Alturas, Mrs. Audrey Decious
McCandless of Chico, Mrs. Helen Armstrong Covell and husband of Yuba
City, Mr. Xenophone Ferguson and wife of Modesto, Mr. Fay Noblett and
wife of Trinity Center, and Mrs. Gladys Eahart Brown and husband of St.
Helena. Members of the class present were Melvin Bailey and wife of
Woodland, John Bacon and wife of Oralnd, Mary Erromouspe Cook and
husband of Eagleville, Marie Espil Henderson of Single Springs, Frankie
Gooch Vargus of Alameda, William Gooch and wife of Santa Rosa, Anola
Hapgood Dixon and husband of Lake City, Dan T. Hill and wife, and
Lucille Hill Andrae both of Cedarville, Willard Hill of Sacramento,
Walter Hussa and wife of Cedarville, Barbara Johnstone Snider and
husband of Lakeview, Oregon, Trilma McCulley Shippen and husband of
Cedarville, Edit page Roberts and husband of Likely, Bob Sweet and
George Albert Turner of Cedarville. Tow members of the class Audrey
Doss Kennedy and Betty Johnston Wolf were unable to attend. Four
members of the class have passed away.

MIKE'S MEMO
By B.S.
Surprise Valley history buffs, who from time to time have given varied
opinions on exactly how the town of Cedarville got its name, will
probably be interested in a recent letter on the matter that I received
from Teddy (Bonner) Meier. Teddy is a descendant of the first merchant
in Cedarville, a graduate of Modoc High School (class of '22) and
presently a resident of Sacramento. She writes:

"Some time ago an article in your paper re: Cedarville, questioned the
origin of the town name of Cedarville. It was named by my grandfather
John Heath Bonner after the town of Cedarville, Ohio - near where he
came from in 1861. The family farm on the Wilmington Pike just N.E. of
Dayton is still in the hands of some of my great grandfather's
descendants. This was confirmed about a month ago by my father's
(Ernest C. Bonner) youngest sister, Marjorie Bonner Towler who now lives
in Oakland."

(And all this time I though it was named for a Cedar tree where my
great, great-grandfather was hung after publishing the first county
newspaper that suggested school unification and county zoning, tsk,
tisk!)

--
Billie Cal & Anita Jeanne (Waters) Reynolds

"Funny, but I don't remember being absent-minded"

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